A group of cyber activists who refer to themselves as 'Anonymous' have taken full credit for a cyber attack on a US Government website, which has led to a leak of several employee data.

Anonymous has taken credit for hacking the United States Census Bureau website and have published the data which includes names, telephone numbers, email addresses, addresses and the ranks of employees within the US Government. The breached and published data also consists of the much difficult but yet not impossible to crack password hashes.

Anonymous claims that the reason behind the hack is the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership which stands Numero Uno in the list of priorities for the American administration and claim a progressive reform in the politico-economic platform of the nation, by creating an alliance with the major Atlantic and Pacific nations. Despite of the numerous opposition the twin pact has gathered in this short period of time, Anonymous is the only group that has raised its opposition vocally.

However, the data breach is not one the most feared activities that the government could with at the moment, such as a massive data breach in the Office of Personnel Management; it is nonetheless embarrassing.

The US Census Bureau, in an emailed statement has confirmed the data breach and that a investigation has been initiated by the IT forensics team. The bureau spokesperson has launched a statement that none of the stolen data 'confidential'.

Now a more lucid investigation can only tell if the data that is being published online is a federal threat or not.

It seems like Anonymous hackers have launched a Distributed denial of service(ddos) attack against GCHQ website.

The attack just came after Edward Snowden leaked a document which revealed that British Spy Agency (GCHQ) carried out ddos attacks to disrupt the anonymous hacktivists' communication channel.

Some anonymous hacktivists also claimed to have successfully disrupted the website of GCHQ. Netcraft confirmed that gchq.gov.uk today has experienced 'noticeable performance issues'. Netcraft says the attack could be originated from Romania.

"Curiously, a much larger amount of downtime has been observed from Netcraft's Romanian performance monitor since the leaked slides were made public."Netcraft post reads.

"That could indicate much more extreme DDoS mitigation techniques are being applied to these requests, and this in turn suggests that if an attack is occurring, perhaps Romania is one of the countries from which the attacks are being launched."

Anonymous hacktivists has leaked a number of documents which is said to have compromised from the personal computers of regional administrations, mainly presidents of Calabria, Lombardia, Sicilia, Toscana, Campania and Puglia.

The leak is only the first leak in series of leaks targeting Italian regional Government. This first leak contains documents compromised from personal computer and mobile devices of Giuseppe Scopelliti, an Italian politician and a member of The People of Freedom political party.

"Giuseppe did nothing to stop mafia in Calabria spreading like plague,
nor he did anything to at least look like trying." hackers wrote in cyberguerilla website.

The hacktivists have posted a 400MB archive file containing 1000 documents and Gallery of 27 documents.

"This is just a beginning. People of Italia do have the right to know what the government is involved in, especially when it comes to mafia wars and corruption in the region." hackers wrote.

November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day on which Anonymous hacktivists and activists from all over the world participate in various protests.

According to Softpedia report, the famous Turkey hacktivists "RedHack" and the world famous hacktivists "Anonymous" have said to have teamed up for the Nov 5 protest.

The operation has been dubbed as "Operation Direnis(#OpDirenis)", "dirensis means "resistance" in Turkey. Interestingly, the individuals claimed there will be no defacement, data leaks or any other cyber attacks!

“Both Anonymous and RedHack are not solely based on hacks, leaks or the exposure of corrupt officials. The very core of both groups are based on activism, in where upon protesting and rebellion is an act of not chaos or anarchy, but of justice, truth and liberty,” the initiators of the operation stated.

“We are here with you today to warn you of an operation that will either go down in history, or it will be forever forged in the stones of rocks, deep in the shadow and forgotten,”

“It is up to the people of Turkey to make one final push to declare both their civil, human and political rights.”

Anonymous hacktivists have hacked into official website of Jordan's Prime ministry in a protest against raising taxes and prices. The website was defaced with a message in Arabic to Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur.

"Hi uncle, how are you? We are sorry, we hacked your website. Are you upset? We feel much worse when you raise prices. The people know this feeling but you do not," the defacement message reads.

According to Voice of Russia report, the website has been restored after it was hacked for several hours. The official claimed to have identified the attackers.

At the time of writing, the website(pmo.gov.jo) is offline. You can still view the defacement in Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://pmo.gov.jo/PMO_Images/635159460595068250.htm

Anonymous hacktivists have breached the North Korean news website (Uriminzokkiri.com) and defaced it, the hackers also took control of the Twitter account and Flickr pages.

The security breach came after the hackers claimed to have compromised 15k user data of Uriminzokkiri. Few days back, they leaked the part of compromised data that contains email address, password. Recently, they leaked 9001 records from Uriminzokkiri (pastebin.com/4g44jfNF).

The main site is offline at the time of writing, but the hacker still has access to the Twitter and Flickr account. The hackers have tweeted the list of hacked sites in Twitter and have uploaded four pictures in Flickr.

They have also defaced few websites with a wanted poster where Kim Jong Un was drawn as a pig.

"Threatening world peace with ICBMs and Nuclear weapons. Wasting money while his people starve to death. Concentration Camps and the worst human rights violation in the world." hacktivists mentioned in the poster as a list of crimes made by Kim Jong Un.

"Chances are that they followed poor password practices, like using the same password in multiple places or choosing a password that was easy to crack.

In response to the numerous account compromises, Twitter has issued a “friendly reminder about password security” in which they advise users to follow four important rules to make sure their accounts aren’t hacked.

The Anonymous hacker collective from Argentina launched Distributed-denial-of-service(DDOS) attack against the INDEC national statistics website in protests of the recently released official inflation rate numbers.

"indec.gov.ar # TANGODOWN by # Anonymous They lie to the people but the people keeps his word # OUTSERVICE INDEC FRITANDOLO" The Hackers posted in Twitter.(Translated)

“We have left the INDEC out of service and it will remain like this for a while. Is this a joke? People can eat with $5.50 now, when it used to be $6?”, the tweet reads.

"INDEC cont lying now say their site works xD oops.! Control is by # Anonymous # SinLideres We are the voice of the people we are Legion" The recent tweet from hacker reads.

According to hacker tweets, they have launched ddos attack against few other Government websites including Ministry of Economy and Finance of Argentina(mecon.gov.ar), Ministry of Defence(mindef.gov.ar).

According to hacktivists statement, 2.7 Gigabyte of internal documents has been stolen from AHK office in Ukraine and Azerbaijan all from the personal computers of delegate of German economy in Ukraine, Alexander Marcus and his wife - Russian citizen and also FSB operative.

The hackers have published a preview of the leaked data which contains a number of 65 images representing scanned copies of various documents and identification papers.

"AHK is a type of organization which does lobby business processes in many countries while gathers intel on many business entities worldwide. " The hacktivist said in the leak.

"Just like in presented release of Ukraine and Azerbaijan offices of AHK - we can find internal info which AHK is not suppose to have in a first place - internal documents and financial reports and confidential agreements of Bahar Energy and SOCAR (Azerbaijan), Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine etc.